RT: Activists in Kharkov are saying that
policemen from other Ukrainian regions arrived in the city and they were
the ones, who provoked the violence. What were they trying to achieve
in your opinion?

Michel Chossudovsky: First of all the Kiev
government has lost control of its security forces, its law enforcement
in Eastern Ukraine. And this, they've realized several weeks back,
because Ukraine's interim government confirmed they were hiring a
private military company, named Greystone Ltd, a company that was
founded by (former) British SAS in the heyday, but actually they're
bringing in private mercenaries, which are now most probably integrating
with the police forces, but they are also acting outside the realm of
official law enforcement agencies.

And witnesses said that these
people came in, they could have been agent provocateurs, I suspect they
were, which also integrates the US, NATO-supported military company
which is acting in Eastern Ukraine. At the same time there is also the
role of the neo-conservative, neo-Nazis given the fact that we know that
the two extreme right parties Svoboda and the Right Sector are in
control of the committee for national security and defense, which plays a
key role. And I would suspect that the government in Kiev is also
divided between the ministry of interior on the one hand and the right
wing extremists on the other.

RT: With protests swelling up in
the south-east of the country, Kiev is threatening 'a harsh response'.
What does that mean do you think?

MC: First of all that
government does not really control the shots. It is an instrument of the
puppet masters namely the US, NATO, and to a lesser extent the EU. They
obey orders and we have seen the position, they've taken with regard to
the IMF reforms. They simply stated, we will accept whatever reforms
proposed to us by the IMF. And essentially what they have accepted is
the impoverishment of the entire population, from West to East, because
that reform package is going to create a further process of
impoverishment of a country which has already been impoverished in the
course of the last 20 years. This reform package essentially destroys
the livelihood of the Ukrainian population and the people in Eastern
Ukraine are now protesting against this government which is committed to
the impoverishment of the masses of people. And they actually have
acknowledged that this is going to impoverish the population.

RT:
The Russian foreign ministry said that the most troubling thing is that
there are mercenaries from an American private security firm among
them. What do you think about this?

MC: I'm going by a report
that was published on March 25 by a Russian news agency. It was based on
the statements made by the interim government to the effect that a US
private military company, in fact it is not a US registered private
military company, it is registered somewhere in the Caribbean, on an
island. It is Greystone Ltd., and this particular company was hired with
a view to essentially taking over law enforcement activities as well as
most probably covert operations in eastern Ukraine. It is not in the
interest of Russian government to see this process erupting in the form
of a violent protest movement or a process that will ultimately
destabilize eastern Ukraine. There is no evidence that the Russian
government is anyway interfering with the unfolding events in eastern
Ukraine. This is a spontaneous movement which is emanating from
grassroots, which also has considerable support within the Ukrainian
population of eastern Ukraine.

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